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>>11181906
If you don’t understand without an explanation you won’t understand with one,
But... here is part of it . it is less true now but back then American TV was HORRIBLE. with a few exceptions. Episodic, dumb writing, characters were the same every episode (didn’t develop). A few high budget Shows that go on forever.
Where almost every anime is based off a manga, so they already have a story arc, a beginning middle and end. And there is tons of anime series that are only 12 or 24 episodes and done. Great story, told. Honestly pleb anime fans are the ones that like shows that aired on American tv that go on forever like dragon ball, bleach, sailor moon.
This distinction is slightly less true now with the rise of premium cable drama., starting with the sopranos era. But even sopranos had tons of filler crap.
The other part of it was it was hard to get. Downloads took forever, most people did not have TVs, fans subbed it themselves and you had to get the burned dvds which was a normie filter itself.